"Why?" the girl asked. She clutched nervously at her dress.
The shinobi looked at each other. Each one silently asked, 'What in the world are we supposed to do now?' The female medic, deciding that apparently the men weren't going to help at all in this situation, put her on the girls' head, and tried to look reassuring. "Well you see… we came here to, uh, look for anything out of place." She smiled.
"And like this kid isn't at all out of the ordinary."
The female shinobi scowled over her shoulder. "And now that we've found something, you, we would like to take you back with us." The child looked around, and started to fidget. She had never seen so many grown-ups in one place before. "I don't want to leave." She said quietly. "Makaho, we need to leave before we are discovered! Just grab the girl and let's go." The man said. The pink-haired girl started to panic. "No! You can't make me leave! What about my friends?" A timid looking shinobi picked her up and slung her over his shoulder. "Nooo! Put me down!" "Bato! Make the kid shut up! We're pulling out."
"I don't think that you're going anywhere." Suddenly, they were completely surrounded.
'Who are these people?' the medic thought.
"You have something that belongs to us." Said the speaker. 'I know that boy…' she thought.
The girl gasped. "Kabuto-san." 'Kabuto! The chief medical officer's son?'
Kabuto smiled. "Don't injure the girl." He instructed. The enemy began to advance.
"Get her out of here!" shouted Makaho. She span around just in time to block a kunai, and tried not to imagine what would have happened if it had lodged itself in her neck.
"No…" The child made another attempt to free herself. The last thing Makaho saw was her troubled little face…
"This is very troubling." Sarutobi surveyed the scene. One dead, three injured. And the last one, who escaped with this lab rat of a child.
"Uhh…" the girl turned over in her sleep, and began to mumble incoherently. Pink hair! He had never seen anything like it. "Bato. Tell me again what this place looked like."
The Hokage hardly listened to the explanation. He was trying to think back, years ago when he had discovered Orochimaru was a traitor, tinkering around in an underground laboratory. "There was a young man, also?" he questioned. "Yeah, a genin."
A leaf genin involved. And the little Sakura. He moved a strand of hair out of her eyes.
